A Globe review of high school graduation requirements found fewer than a dozen of the state’s 50 largest districts require ...

When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s high school graduation exams on Election Day, they joined a growing ...

Now that we have discarded the MCAS, it is time for us to establish an updated MassCore as the new minimum statewide ...

Norton argued that without the high bar of the standard exam, kids like hers won’t have an incentive to strive. But Scruggs ...

Moving from 21 Notre Dame Avenue to Matignon Road required the Banneker to amend its state charter, now partly in Somerville. For 2026, up to 10 students from Somerville will be able to enroll. “It ...

Jill Norton, an education policy adviser in Massachusetts, has a teenage son with dyslexia and ADHD. Shelley Scruggs, an ...

Massachusetts voters approved a measure ending the requirement that students pass a test to graduate. In 2012, half the ...

While Lynnfield High students are shining when it comes to MCAS and AP tests, the SATs continue to trend in a downward direction. Principal Patricia Puglisi said that SAT scores dropped in 2024. The ...

“I didn’t really think of MCAS of that level ... distributed across English, math, social sciences, science, foreign language, fine and performing arts, and wellness subjects.

Bachelor of arts students complete a 34-credit computer science component, supplemented by a mathematics component rooted in calculus. For most students, the program requires completion of fourteen ...

Maura Healey, who opposed the MCAS question, told reporters on Wednesday that the Board ... would ensure that all students have access to a "rigorous set of courses in math, in science, in English, in ...